Wah Lee shop was a bank, unofficial post office and probably a social center that opened in 1904. It is now a Chinese icon in Auckland city central. Current owner, Barry WAHLEE and his family, have been living in the shop since moving from Greys Avenue in the sixties to the current address of the hustling and bustling Hobson Street. The shop display is intriguing for its vibrancy and chaos. Once I walked through to the back area where they live, it is a completely different world. I was engulfed in a state of calmness though the home is seemingly as disorganised as the shop display. After further scrutiny, the respect to the ancestors that Barry’s family pay has become vivid. The ancestral tablet of Barry’s mother is keeping in existence amongst the daily utensils. And the pig-specimens (total of four) hunted by Barry’s father are standing high up on the wall, deified.